Having anIP addressallows a equipment to communicate with other devices over an IP-based internet like the internet.
What Does an IP Address Look Like?
An IP address provides an identity to a networked gear on the internet.
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If you send a package to a friend in another country, you have to know the exact destination.
This same general process is used to send data over the internet.
Without the IP address, the computer has no clue what it is that you’re after.
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The former is the older version, while IPv6 is the upgraded IP version.
One reason IPv6 is replacing IPv4 is that it provides a larger number of IP addresses than IPv4.
Visualizing this helps understand just how many more IP addresses the IPv6 addressing scheme allows over IPv4.
Pretend a postage stamp could provide enough space to hold each and every IPv4 address.
IPv6, then, to scale, would need the entire solar system to contain all of its addresses.
Different Types of IP Addresses
There are specific types of IP addresses.
There areprivate IP addresses,public IP addresses,static IP addresses, anddynamic IP addresses.
Each jot down of IP address can be an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address.
An IP address assigned by aDHCPserver is a dynamic IP address.
What Is My IP Address?
Different devices and operating systems require unique steps tofind your IP address.
These sites work on any connection-connected machine (a smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc.)
that supports a web web app.
Most people shouldn’t need to find their external/public IP address often.
To find a private IP address on other operating systems:
Wireless printers have their own IP address.
One way tofind a printer’s IP addressis from the printer’s properties.
An IP address for Wi-Fi is the same as any other IP address.
IP addresses are the same, whether wired or wireless.
IP addresses pertain to networks and internet-capable devices, not to connection methods.
